"The State of Israel ... will ensure complete equality of social and political
rights of all its inhabitants irrespective of religion ... it will guarantee freedom
of religion and conscience." - May 1948)

At the Technion-Israel Institute of Technology in Haifa, the school’s community rabbi said Jews should avoid the student union hall after a Christmas tree was placed there for the benefit of Christian students.

Six years ago, Knesset passed law permitting civil unions for citizens without a recognized religion; rather than open the floodgates to civil marriage, the law has stagnated; some 300,000 Israelis have 'no religious affiliation' and are thus barred from marrying inside the country.